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When the twelve years should expire, Spain might reconquer the United Provinces if she could; relying upon the great truth that an adverb was not a preposition. And France or Great Britain might attempt the same thing if either felt strong enough for the purpose. Jeannin was right enough in urging that this famous clause of recognition ought to satisfy both parties.
Then comes a curious specimen of our poet's English: "Yet not alone created realms engage Thy faultless wisdom, grand, primeval sage! For all the thronging woes to life allied Thy mercy tempers, and thy cares provide." We should be glad to know what the word "For" means here. If it is a preposition, it makes nonsense of the words, "Thy mercy tempers."
I would, however, remark that the Greek preposition en may be rendered, on account of. The phrase would then read thus the dead on account of Christ. Wakefield renders it thus "they who have died in the cause of Christ." That this is its true sense, I have not a doubt.
And he stirred up an evil plague through the army. Lest perchance they wish to decide the contest in the night, where the preposition is followed by, the accusative, not the genitive. Of whom he lies lamenting, instead of "concerning whom." Expecting whether he would bespeak him, instead of "speak to him." And other prepositions he in the same fashion changes or leaves out.
It has not the force of belonging to, or being the property of; but is the translation of a Greek preposition, meaning out of, springing from, originating in.
It was continually, "Look at Henry Summers! he doesn't put the preposition before the verb, and spell business b-i-z!" or, "Why can't you write like Henry Summers? He doesn't get the ink all over the copy-book and half-way up his back!"
The king picked her up easier than one does a down quilt, and replaced her in her former relation to the chair. The exact preposition expressing this relation I do not happen to know. "Is there nothing you wish for?" resumed the king, who had learned by this time that it was useless to be angry with her. "Oh, you dear papa! yes," answered she. "What is it, my darling?"
This form of attributive phrase, consisting of a preposition with a noun, is common; cf. 24 ex agro Sabino rusticos Romanos; 40 cum hostibus clandestina colloquia. Querella is better spelling than querela. See Roby, 177, 2. QUI: 'men of such nature as to .... ET ... NEC: Roby 2241. The reason for the departure from the ordinary sequence of particles lies in the words non moleste.
It is just here that the Socialist has a great advantage, for his theme is the most serious and tremendous that ever occupied the mind of man. The close of a lecture is called the peroration the word oration prefixed by the Latin preposition "per." "Per" has several meanings, one of them being "to the utmost extent" as in peroxide a substance oxidized to the utmost degree.
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